THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP PRESENTED BY SOUTHERN COMPANY

October 26, 1999

David Duval

DAVID DUVAL: It was a lot different than it normally would be, certainly. I don't know how to describe it. Just a day that, you know, I think I don't think today was any easier than yesterday, but yesterday I think was the worst part about it all. I think today just trying to get a grasp of it being real.

DAVID DUVAL: Not any specific ones that I am going to give you, no. Certainly there is a lot of different things. I view Payne as my friend. I think he would have said the same thing about me. I think that is about the best thing you can say. I think it is difficult right now because all the players are being asked their opinions and emotions about what is going on, and just like anybody, they can't get a hold of it or get a grasp of it so quickly. So I think you probably have heard a lot of people are at a loss. I am certainly one of them.

DAVID DUVAL: You know what, whether it should be played or not is not for me to say. I have no say in the competitions. I think it will be difficult to really be focused on what you are doing. But I imagine everybody will be playing and doing the best they can. But I don't know how spectacular the golf will be.

DAVID DUVAL: I don't know. Really, I don't know. It is a very big important event, but everybody has been frustrated with me. Since the five years I have played, golf is not terribly important to me. It is not the biggest thing in my life. And again, it still isn't. It never has been. But what it will take away, I don't know. The feelings will probably not be as great as they might have been. I think several years down the road, a year down the road, whatever it might be, the achievement itself, there won't be an asterisk next to it. But in the short term, there might be.

DAVID DUVAL: Certainly, I felt like it's a bit of an obligation, but at the same time, we were given the options of playing or not. We weren't told we had to play. But if you could tell me what else I should have done, I would have been open to the suggestions, but I didn't know what else I should do.

DAVID DUVAL: Well, I think probably, certainly, it is something that, you know, at least you are out there and occupied for five and a half hours; it goes really fast. What else are you going to do? You sit around and -- I don't know.

DAVID DUVAL: I was just finishing lunch, actually, when a manufacturer's rep was here. He said that -- "What is so important about that shot?" I was just getting done with lunch with a rep. His wife had called him and said that there was a plane, that was a private plane, that was -- they didn't know what was wrong with it exactly. And he believed everybody was unconscious, and there was a prominent golfer on board. Then it just -- everybody else was curious as to what it was, what was going on, if it was accurate, and then it all -- everybody realized it was true and it was accurate, so...

DAVID DUVAL: You know, actually, I went from there and I went 15 , 30 feet away to register at the table there. One lady at the registration table said it was Payne. When I got up and went inside from there to the locker room, the television said somebody was leaving Orlando headed to Dallas, and they were on a Lear 35. So I was like, "Well, that is not Payne." Because I am in that same program that he was with Flex Jet, and they don't fly their 35s. They fly 31s and 6s, so it was kind of like a brief relief, that it just that must have been inaccurate. Then we found out it was a charter plane; it wasn't through the company.

DAVID DUVAL: It is a timeshare, just like an executive jet where you buy a piece of the plane.

DAVID DUVAL: Yes, you are actually on the title.

DAVID DUVAL: Yeah, I certainly think it could have happened to anybody, and I don't know -- concern, I don't -- I don't know how much -- I don't think it changes it. It is proven that flying is the safest way to go. And we have no choice. If you are going to be a professional golfer, you are going to fly. So it is just part of what you do.

DAVID DUVAL: I don't know. I guess -- I don't know. I really don't know. I mean, you know, I am in a tough position, I think, just like all the other players. You are asking us to qualify everything about what has happened, and we don't know anymore than anybody else does. So I don't know. It's the only Ryder Cup experience I will have had with him obviously. The events that transpired up there were -- made it something you will never forget, you know. It was just a shame that we won't be able to share that experience with him again.

DAVID DUVAL: Right, that. It opens you up to a lot more. You can fly into a lot more airports; you can fly a lot more closer. You don't spend the downtime, you know, sitting around. It makes it a heck of a lot easier to get home to Jacksonville on Sunday nights. And I don't know how long exactly I have been in it. I have been with Flex Jet just over a year. I did it for a couple of years before that.

DAVID DUVAL: I can't answer that. I can't answer that. I don't know.

DAVID DUVAL: I don't right now. I probably met him -- I don't know, but I probably -- at Medinah when I was 18. I think Payne is one of the people you seem like you have known forever, just because he was so recognizable with his clothing and his hat. I think everybody thinks they have known him for a long time.

DAVID DUVAL: Well, I haven't been around any players really. I was one of the four, five people first here, and I saw Jim Fuyrk out here yesterday briefly. I saw Brent Geiberger as he walked in the locker room. That was it. And this morning, I came in and basically warmed up and teed off. So I haven't seen anybody. So I don't really know the -- the little interaction I have had with players, we don't know what to say to each other, either.

DAVID DUVAL: No.

DAVID DUVAL: No.

DAVID DUVAL: I don't know. I am unaware of what is going on; so can't really tell you. I don't know if there is one Friday, what time it is going to be, any of that; so I can't give you an answer.

DAVID DUVAL: I feel like I played okay. The last event I was in at Williamsburg. Didn't play particularly well today. So I don't know anymore. I think I am playing okay. Little tweak there and little tweak here, maybe it will be good enough.

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